New Releases by Scott McCLOUD

#1 New York Times bestselling cartoonists Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for a one-of-a-kind friendship story about creativity and self-expression that blends how-to and comics magic. Welcome to the club! Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn''t know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but he struggles to come up with ideas and his dad thinks comics are a waste of time. Lynda constantly draws in her sketchbook but keeps focusing on what she feels are mistakes, and Art simply loves being creative and is excited to try something new. They come together to form The Cartoonists Club, where kids can learn about making comics and use their creativity and imagination for their own storytelling adventures!

L''Art invisible est l''ouvrage théorique de référence sur la bande dessinée. Salué par les plus grands noms (Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore...), Scott McCloud a été le premier à formaliser la bande dessinée en tant que média, de ses origines à sa forme la plus actuelle. Cette parfaite synthèse, claire et accessible, permet à l''amateur comme au spécialiste de profiter de l''analyse riche et pertinente de son auteur.

Tra il 1993 e il 2006, Scott McCloud ha scritto e disegnato tre saggi sul Fumetto, divenuti testi fondamentali non solo per chi lavora nel settore e che lo hanno consacrato come il massimo teorico della Nona arte. Con questa edizione, BAO Publishing raccoglie Capire il Fumetto, Reinventare il Fumetto e Fare Fumetto in un solo volume, in un’edizione curata e rigorosa, pensata per durare in eterno. Dalla natura della narrazione sequenziale, al potenziale rivoluzionario (a livello di contenuti e di mercato) del Fumetto, alle tecniche narrative più efficaci, questo libro è un tesoro dell’umanità, un’opera allo stesso tempo accessibile e profondissima, davvero illuminante.

★ 史考特‧麥克勞德漫畫藝術經典評論第三部 ★《紐約時報》暢銷作家排行榜第一名 ★ 12次獲得哈維獎和艾斯納獎 ★ 漫畫家×插畫家×動畫導演×多媒體動畫科系教授 強力推薦！ ★一本與漫畫藝術未來有關的新世紀續集宣言！ 任何與互動娛樂（遊戲、網站等）有關的人都應該讀這本書。史考特・麥克勞德再一次超越了漫畫世界，挖掘更深層的創意、娛樂與經濟議題。這一次他不是探索過去，而是放眼未來。——威爾・萊特，美國電腦遊戲設計師、Maxis的創辦人 1993年史考特‧麥克勞德用他的第一本書《漫畫原來要這樣看》推倒了橫亙於菁英文化與通俗文化中間的那堵牆；一本談論漫畫的漫畫書，厚重而且扎實，涉及的領域相當廣，包含媒介理論、電影評論與網頁設計。到了《漫畫原來還可以這樣看》，以幽默詼諧的輕鬆語調，講述漫畫行業的歷史、狀態及漫畫創作技巧，作者史考特・麥克勞德探索了漫畫的各種可能性，與時俱進，用圖表說明了漫畫的「十二大革命」，漫畫是如何發展的，在現代又如何被理解與閱讀，以及漫畫如何在嶄新的數位多媒體中開創輝煌的未來。 《漫畫原來還可以這樣看》內容分為兩大部分，首部曲探討漫畫作為一種藝術形式和文學、創作者的權益與社會政治的鬥爭、漫畫的散播管道改變、公眾對於漫畫的看法演進、漫畫中存在的性別與種族問題。到了第二部分，作者描繪了各種漫畫數位革命圖景，複雜性、影響與挑戰。

※暢銷20年，全球翻譯超過27種語言 ※榮獲漫畫界的奧斯卡獎「哈維獎」＋「埃斯特獎」！ 本書以漫畫的形式介紹漫畫的發展沿革、藝術語言、表現手法，是進入漫畫藝術的入門作品。並以簡單的畫面告訴大家，漫畫不專屬宅男的讀物，而是一種擁有強烈表現力的藝術形式。內容淺顯易懂，引導讀者了解各種漫畫風格的構成元素，文字與圖像如何合而為一，並發揮出其魔力。 這部作品淺顯易懂，除深受一般喜愛漫畫的大眾讀者歡迎外，亦為深受漫畫創作平面設計、遊戲設計和網頁設計人員歡迎的經典教材。無論是初窺影像創作，或希望更上層樓的影像、動畫、漫畫創作者，或是對自媒體、微電影有高度興趣者，均為一定要入手的經典工具書。

Based on the beloved animated series, Superman takes flight in this book for fans of all ages! Superman: The Animated Series was an instant classic, developed by the same team behind the beloved Batman: The Animated Series and featuring some of the greatest Superman adventures ever committed to film. Dive back into the world of Superman: The Animated Series with this collection of comics featuring the iconic cast and some legendary creators! FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SUPERMAN CATCHES A COLD. GAWK AS SUPERMAN LOSES HIS POWERS! WITNESS THE GALACTIC BRAWL BETWEEN SUPERMAN AND LOBO. WATCH AS SUPERMAN PLAYS BASEBALL TO SAVE THE WORLD! SUPERMAN ADVENTURES VOL. 2 features stories by Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Zot!), Mark Millar (Ultimate Avengers), Rick Burchett (THE BATMAN ADVENTURES) and others. Collects SUPERMAN ADVENTURES #11-16, SUPERMAN ADVENTURES ANNUAL #1 and SUPERMAN ADVENTURES SPECIAL #1.

Un libro de referencia del gran McCloud Scott McCloud, autor de cómics (El Escultor o Zot!) y reputado teórico en la materia, nos ofrece este libro de ensayo teórico, donde propone 12 revoluciones diferentes en la manera de crear, distribuir y percibir los cómics. Con especial énfasis en el potencial del soporte online. Además, McCloud examina el cómic como forma de arte y como literatura, y explora los cómics y las Nuevas Tecnologías, incluyendo la producción digital. Editor original: Harper Collins

Scott McCloud a changé radicalement l''image de la BD avec L''Art invisible, une BD sur la BD qui décortiquait les mécanismes du 9e Art. Avec Réinventer la bande dessinée, il franchit une nouvelle étape en décrivant les douze révolutions en cours dans la création, la lecture et la perception de la BD. De l''issue de ces révolutions dépend la place qu''occupe la BD dans la culture aujourd''hui.

David Smith è uno scultore. Ha appena compiuto ventisei anni, e forse il suo quarto d''ora di gloria è già passato. Solo al mondo, senza un soldo, senza un mecenate che creda in lui, David incontra un vecchio zio che gli propone un patto che non ammette esitazioni: duecento giorni in cui potrà scolpire la materia a mani nude come se fosse acqua, ma poi morirà. Chi è realmente Zio Harry? Come può David accettare serenamente la sua proposta? Quando la tecnica non è più un problema, l''ispirazione viene spontanea? Cos''è l''arte, cos''è l''amore, come si impara consapevolmente a morire? Il primo romanzo grafico di Scott McCloud è anche il suo capolavoro. "Lo scultore è il miglior romanzo grafico che abbia letto da molti anni a questa parte. Parla di arte, di amore e di perché non smettiamo di provarci. Vi spezzerà il cuore." --Neil Gaiman

Una fábula urbana, adulta y subyugante que versa sobre un deseo, un trato con la Muerte, el precio del arte y el valor de la vida. David Smith está dispuesto a morir por su obra... literalmente. Gracias a un trato con la Muerte, este joven escultor consigue cumplir su gran deseo de la infancia: ser capaz de esculpir, únicamente con las manos, cualquier cosa que imagine. Pero ahora, con solo 200 días de vida por delante, decidir qué crear le está resultando más difícil de lo que pensaba. Y encontrar a su alma gemela en el último momento no va a hacerlo más sencillo. Esta es la historia de un deseo llevado más allá de los límites de la razón. Es un relato sobre los torpes y frenéticos pasos del amor incipiente. También es un retrato exuberante y urbano de la ciudad más grandiosa del mundo. Pero, por encima de todo, es un canto a esos pequeños, cálidos y humanos momentos que nos ofrece la vida cotidiana...y a las enormes fuerzas que se agitan, furiosas, bajo su superficie.

David Smith ist Bildhauer. Talentiert, aber nicht berühmt. Deshalb nimmt er auch allzu gerne das faustische Angebot an, jede Skulptur, die er sich vorstellen kann, mit seinen Händen erschaffen zu können, ganz gleich aus welchen Materialien. Auch wenn der Preis für diese Kunst sein Leben ist. Doch David hat dabei zwei Dinge nicht bedacht: Die Schwierigkeit ein Kunstwerk für die Ewigkeit zu erschaffen und ... die Liebe. Er hat nur 200 Tage, um beidem gerecht zu werden. Es gibt nur wenige moderne Comicschöpfer, die so großen Einfluss auf die künstlerische Konstruktion von Comics hatten wie der Amerikaner Scott McCloud. Nach seinen berühmten Standardwerken über Comics ("Comics richtig lesen", "Comics neu erfinden" und "Comics machen") hat er nun endlich seine erste große Graphic Novel geschrieben. Auf fast 500 Seiten nimmt er den Leser mit auf eine einzigartige Reise durch die Kunstwelt und die Seele eines Künstlers. Mit jedem Panel beweist McCloud seine große Fähigkeit, mit Bildern erzählen zu können.

The long-awaited magnum opus from comics superstar Scott McCloud: a spellbinding adult urban fable about a wish, a deal with Death, the price of art, and the value of life

The #1 New York Times –bestselling and Eisner Award-winning creator of Understanding Comics gathers the year''s best graphic stories in one essential volume. "It''s the perfect book to pick up to restore your faith in comics or help show infinite diversity in infinite combinations on display on paper using the world''s greatest artform." — Comics Bulletin Compiled by guest editor Scott McCloud—"just about the smartest guy in comics" (Frank Miller), The Best American Comics 2014 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction—from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web—to make a unique, stunning collection. Featuring Charles Burns * R. Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb * Gilbert Hernandez * Jaime Hernandez * John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell * Raina Telgemeier * Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples * Chris Ware * and others

Prima di diventare il principale teorico del linguaggio del fumetto al mondo, Scott McCloud ha contribuito a innovare quello stesso linguaggio con la sua serie Zot, negli anni Ottanta. Questo volume raccoglie tutta la run in bianco e nero della storica testata, con commenti episodio per episodio a cura dello stesso autore e materiali rari o inediti a corredo. La storia di Jenny e Zot, abitanti di due terre parallele, una tristemente uguale al nostro mondo, l''altra utopistica ed epurata da ogni infelicità, è la storia di un incontro destinato a cambiare profondamente la giovane studentessa, il biondo eroe, e noi lettori. Per sempre.

Livewire surges ahead with a new cause, and only the Man of Steel has a chance of stopping her.

After a blinding flash of white light, Metropolis is in ruins and moving backwards in time, and it is up to Superman to prevent the chain of events that caused the catastrophe.

Metallo strikes at the Last Son of Krypton through a woman who claims to be Superman''s girlfriend!

As the light from the explosion that destroyed Krypton finally reaches Earth, the robot Brainiac sets out to destroy Superman and so erase all knowledge of Krypton--and the memory of his role in its destruction.

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character''s facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form.

Les laboratoires S.T.A.R. ont fabriqué un incroyable fusil capable de contrôler la gravité. Et Lex Luthor veut s’en emparer à tout prix ! Il charge donc deux de ses hommes de main de le dérober. Superman intervient mais a-t-il les moyens de faire échouer leur plan... si la gravité le cloue au sol et l’empêche même de marcher ! Deux nouveaux épisodes de l’Homme d’Acier à ne pas manquer !

From comics pioneer Scott McCloud, the complete black and white collection of Zot!, featuring never-before-seen artwork and extensive commentary by the author Long before manga took the American comics market by storm, Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Making Comics) combined the best ideas from manga, alternative comics, and superheroes into Zot!—a frenetic and innovative exploration of comics'' potential that helped set the stage for McCloud''s later groundbreaking theoretical work. Zachary T. Paleozogt lives in "the far-flung future of 1965," a utopian Earth of world peace, robot butlers, and flying cars. Jenny Weaver lives in an imperfect world of disappointment and broken promises—the Earth we live in. Stepping across the portals to each other''s worlds, Zot and Jenny''s lives will never be the same again. Now, for the first time since its original publication more than twenty years ago, every one of McCloud''s pages from the black and white series has been collected in this must-have commemorative edition for aficionados to treasure and new fans to discover.

Nach dem sich Scott McCloud in seinen ersten beiden Büchern »Comics richtig lesen« und »Comics neu erfinden« der Theorie und der Zukunft des Mediums Comic gewidmet hat, wendet er sich nun den praktischen Dingen zu. »Comics machen« schildert in gewohnt profunder und amüsanter Weise den Prozess des Comic-Schaffens. Hier lernt man alles über... - die Wahl des richtigen Bildausschnitts, um eine klare und stringente Geschichte zu erzählen. - die Aufteilung einer Seite, um den besten Lesefluss zu ermöglichen. - die gelungene Komposition von Texten und Bildern. - die Schaffung neuer und interessanter Figuren. - den Gebrauch von Körpersprache, Gestik und Mimik, um den Figuren Leben einzuhauchen. - die Schaffung vielfältiger und glaubhafter Welten, in denen die Leser sich verlieren können. - die richtigen Zeichenwerkzeuge. - die verschiedenen Comicstile und Genres. Dieses Buch ist ein umfassender Wegweiser für alle, die selbst Comics machen wollen. Ganz gleich ob sie für Comics, Manga oder Graphic Novels schwärmen, ob sie zeichnen, Geschichten schreiben oder beides verbinden wollen.

Reveals the source of Superman''s character, courage, and strength.

Scripts by Mike Baron, Otto Binder, Peter David, Mark Evanier, Scott McCloud, Bill Mumy and Miguel Ferrer, Sara Ryan, Gail Simone, and Judd Winick, each introduced by respective author. Commentary offered from Lea Hernandez, Steve Leialoha, Chuck Austen, Steve Lieber, Mark Heike and Pop Mhan.